Seatpost: Campagnolo Super Record (27,2mm)Ĭondition: Used, but good condition. I road it for 20 years and hope to have it road worthy again soon. Im restoring a 1986 Colnago 'Mexico', Columbus tubing. Rear Derailleur: Campagnolo Super Record (PAT 84) It was the most beautiful bike I ever had, but it was too good for me and I sold it to an up and coming amateur rider.
WHAT YEAR IS BEST FOR COLNAGO C40 PRO
It respectfully earned the title ‘ the most versatile bike in the pro peleton’. The C40 has won everything from the Paris Robaix to the mountain stages in the Tour. L’Eroica ready.įrame & Fork: Colnago Nuovo Mexico, crimped Columbus SL tubingĬrankset: Campagnolo Super Record (52/41)įront Derailleur: Campagnolo Super Record At the time, the Colnago C40 ( C for Carbon & 40 for the age of Colnago) had the reputation as one of the best frames in the world. The trandescent beauty of this steel icon remains unrivalled.Ī legend. This 2nd generation Nuovo Mexico frame is shining in outstanding Saronni paintjob, made of crimped Columbus SL tubing (2 crimps on top tube, 4 on down tube), built with Campagnolo Super Record groupset, Cinelli Colnago stem and handlebar, NiSi rims, San Marco Concor saddle.
A great deal of time and effort went into adorning this race winning device with. Happy to present one of the best steel racing machines that ever left Ernesto’s factory, the COLNAGO Nuovo Mexico Profil which dates back to 1984. At the beginning of the 90s, when Ernesto Colnago developed the C40. And the best: It has his 1999 paint scheme. One of his original Team Mapei Colnago C40.
The Nuovo Mexico is also predecessor for Colnago’s future models with more crimps: the Master, the Arabesque Regal and Esa Mexico. When Ernesto released the Colnago C40 he started a revolution. Colnago Nuovo Mexico was released in 1982/83, it was stiffer than Super or Mexico models and has 2 crimps on the top tube, 4 crimps on the down tube and none inside the chain stays ( Colnago Super Profil has 2 crimps on top tube, 2 crimps on down tube, crimped chainstays). In about 1981, Ernesto Colnago decided to crimp the frame tubes (something that bike builders had been doing to chain stays for decades).
Colnago’s bikes still have a domination of the world’s cycling sports because Ernesto was always an innovator and pioneer of new technologies which supposedly provide more efficency or comfort. His first big success as a frame builder dates back in 1960 when Luigi Arienti won gold medal at the Rome Olympic games.
WHAT YEAR IS BEST FOR COLNAGO C40 PROFESSIONAL
In 1952 he founded Colnago and started to work as mechanic for several professional teams. At age 13 he entered in world of two wheels and immediately he fall in love with bikes and cycling. Photo: Graham Watson By Simon Smythe SeptemThe potential of carbon-fibre as a superior material for bike frames was recognised in the Seventies, but it wasn’t until the arrival of the. Head tube height: 158 mm Stand over height: 83 cm Wheel base: 99 cm Weight: 9. (top of tube 58.5 cm) Top Tube Lenght: 57 cm ct.- ct. Brand: Colnago Model: ESA Mexico Era:early 1980’s Frame size: 57cm ct.- ct. Ernesto Colnago was born on Februin Cambiago, near Milan, Italy. We’ve been selling only the very best Italian steel bikes for over a decade now, both online and in store in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin.
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